Pepperland

Click here to enter
Pepperland.
(be sure you have a
VRML player
installed before clicking the above link)

Note - the Cortona Player appears to have a
render problem in many browsers on Mac OSX (the view port is shifted upwards),
however you can still navigate the scene. It works OK in
Firefox and
Deskbrowse. I have not tested
it on Windows, feedback
would be appreciated!

SGI users can use the
Cosmo Player plugin
with Netscape 4.76; copy and paste this link to access the vrml world directly:
http://www.jonathanmortimer.co.uk/personal/pepperland.html

Background

This was my first forey into VRML modelling and
scene building. It is quite obviously based on a
scene from Yellow Submarine, one of my favourite films,
near the beginning when the Meanies attack. Although
I kept on developing it I still lacked the knowledge
required to make it truely dynamic, I tried
with the animated butterfly and detail management in
the flowers, but unfortunately the
book which might have helped me was out of print
and had become impossible to find. Now I have moved
on and have little interest in going back to it, and
it doesn't play very well in Mac and PC players (it was
designed with Cosmo Player in mind using Cosmo Worlds
on an SGI Indy/Indigo2). It's good
to still be able to navigate through my early attempt though.

I started work on The Sea of Holes and got so far with it,
but unfortunately lost all my work when I accidentally wiped
my hard drive! I also made a very nice model of the
Yellow Submarine but lost that too. That kind of killed off my enthusiasm for
a while, and other factors in my life meant that VRML
took a back seat.